On this day:
1284
The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1777
American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
1806
Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire
1862
American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1914
World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1930
Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
1940
Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
1945
World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1991
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2011
A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
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We are witnessing a gerrymandering battle between the Republicans and the Democrats. Only the citizens are sure to lose. Gerrymandering disenfranchises voters and distorts elections. What honest citizen would want this? Who does gerrymandering benefit if it undermines the nation's principles?
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For years, scientists have debated the origin story for the organic carbon found in the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, with possibilities including various abiotic processes related to volcanic activity, impact events on Mars, or hydrological exposure, as well as potentially the remnants of ancient life forms on Mars or contamination from its crash landing on Earth.
The study, led by scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Science and published last week in Science, analyzed samples from the meteorite and revealed evidence of serpentinization and carbonation processes. “These kinds of non-biological, geological reactions are responsible for a pool of organic carbon compounds from which life could have evolved and represent a background signal that must be taken into consideration when searching for evidence of past life on Mars,” said Andrew Steele, lead author of the study.
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1284
The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
1777
American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
1806
Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire
1862
American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad Ship CSS is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1914
World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
1930
Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
1940
Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
1945
World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1991
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996
NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2011
A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
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We are witnessing a gerrymandering battle between the Republicans and the Democrats. Only the citizens are sure to lose. Gerrymandering disenfranchises voters and distorts elections. What honest citizen would want this? Who does gerrymandering benefit if it undermines the nation's principles?
***
For years, scientists have debated the origin story for the organic carbon found in the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, with possibilities including various abiotic processes related to volcanic activity, impact events on Mars, or hydrological exposure, as well as potentially the remnants of ancient life forms on Mars or contamination from its crash landing on Earth.
The study, led by scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Science and published last week in Science, analyzed samples from the meteorite and revealed evidence of serpentinization and carbonation processes. “These kinds of non-biological, geological reactions are responsible for a pool of organic carbon compounds from which life could have evolved and represent a background signal that must be taken into consideration when searching for evidence of past life on Mars,” said Andrew Steele, lead author of the study.
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A Tempest in Search of a Teapot
Somehow, the massive victory of tasteless and immoral capitalism that is the Kardashians is overlooked, but not a good-looking girl in jeans.
Jeans, genes. Apparently, the Left got the joke; they just didn't think it was very funny. In fact, they thought it evil. It seems it has some complex and arcane connection with the eugenics movement of the early 20th Century, which, regrettably, has origins in the pseudoscience of the early Progressive movement that the Progressives would sooner forget.
But for people devoted to the pseudoscience of history, the Left is pretty dismissive of history. They are currently pretending that the politicization of eugenics was not their idea. And now it is resurrected in the person of a fit blond paid to wear denim.
There is a point where poetry becomes real. One no longer sees similes and metaphors as representative or clarifying. They become literal, and "My love is like a red, red rose" becomes a guy burying his love in the backyard in hopes she will forever bloom. The technical term for this is "nuts."
This might be fun to watch play out. The opposition to the ad is overwrought. "Has Gen Z fallen out of love with Americana?" " For Gen Z, these images don’t just signal freedom and youth; they’ve become flashpoints in an ongoing conversation about identity, power, and exclusion." "American Eagle’s campaign stumbles. The visuals are polished, but context is absent. A gorgeous shot of Sydney leaning on a rusty Camaro doesn’t feel like a love letter to America; it feels like a sepia-toned fantasy that ignores who built those roads, who got left behind, and who was never pictured in the first place."
Everything but the jeans.
We might turn to previous campaigns like Brooke Shields or Beyoncé--but history apparently is no guide.
This might be fun to watch play out. The opposition to the ad is overwrought. "Has Gen Z fallen out of love with Americana?" " For Gen Z, these images don’t just signal freedom and youth; they’ve become flashpoints in an ongoing conversation about identity, power, and exclusion." "American Eagle’s campaign stumbles. The visuals are polished, but context is absent. A gorgeous shot of Sydney leaning on a rusty Camaro doesn’t feel like a love letter to America; it feels like a sepia-toned fantasy that ignores who built those roads, who got left behind, and who was never pictured in the first place."
Everything but the jeans.
We might turn to previous campaigns like Brooke Shields or Beyoncé--but history apparently is no guide.
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